Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures
Edited by Maryam Nourzaei Edited by Carina Jahani Edited by Agnes Korn
This volume presents papers demonstrating the current state of research on oral traditions among different groups in the Iranian-speaking cultural sphere. The articles offer from a variety of perspectives, encouraging the exchange of ideas between different academic disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, literature, religious studies and folklore studies concerning methods and models applied to studies of oral traditions in Iranian languages and cultures.
This volume presents papers demonstrating the current state of research on oral traditions among different groups in the Iranian-speaking cultural sphere. The articles offer from a variety of perspectives, encouraging the exchange of ideas between different academic disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, literature, religious studies and folklore studies concerning methods and models applied to studies of oral traditions in Iranian languages and cultures. In the introductory part, Bo Utas discusses the use of multiple languages and diverse registers, comparing his father’s native Estonian-Swedish village in Russia to parallels in the Iranian sphere, and Ulrich Marzolph presents a survey of recent research on oral traditions in Iran and the challenges it currently faces. The second part studies the interplay of written and oral patterns of text production and transmission connected to the Shahnama and its literary and narrative traditions. Carl Erixon examines passages referring to the sun, moon and stars that, he argues, represent poetic formulae with close parallels in ancient Indo-European languages. Kumiko Yamamoto applies a model developed to study oral traits in written text to a version of the Barzunama found in an unpublished manuscript at the French national library, and Julia Rubanovich studies the perception and representation of the written text in the Iskandarnama and the Darabnama. Finally, Margaret Mills looks at the relationship of oral narrative performances from different genres in Afghanistan to written Persian texts. Concerning oral traditions in lesser-studied Iranian languages, Sara Belelli presents a comparative study of Southern Kurdish folk tales about the “Innocent Persecuted or Unfortunate Heroine”. Sabir Badalkhan compares the epic about the Baloch hero Mir Chakar to parallels in the Shahnama and the Sindhi epic tradition. The heroes from the Balochi epics are also reflected in popular sayings containing place names, as shown by Moosa Mahmoudzahi. From a more linguistic perspective, Carina Jahani and Jaroslava Obrtelova study to what extent clause-combining strategies in Balochi differ between oral and written narration, and Maryam Nourzaei compares the extent to which oral traditions survive in different Balochi-speaking areas. Erika Friedl’s account of how her long acquaintance with a Luri community influenced the way they tell their stories concludes the book.
- Edited by Maryam Nourzaei
- Edited by Carina Jahani
- Edited by Agnes Korn
Other Titles in this Series
Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia
Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002
Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran
Études indo-iraniennes et indo-européenes offertes à Jean Kellens à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire
Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit
Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann
Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies
Held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1995. Old and Middle Iranian Studies
Vafsi Folk Tales
Twenty Four Folk Tales in the Gurchani Dialect of Vafsi as Narrated by Ghazanfar Mahmudi and Mashdi Mahdi and Collected by Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton
Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies
Held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1999. Mediaeval and Modern Persian
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